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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1: "The Windhover," lines 1-14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a "chevalier" (line 11)?
(a) A knight.
(b) A horse.
(c) A falconer.
(d) A bird.

2. In lines 10 and 11, the speaker says that the fire "that breaks from thee" is a billion times "lovelier" and more what?
(a) Hypnotic.
(b) Rapturous.
(c) Dangerous.
(d) Sanctified.

3. To whom is the poem dedicated?
(a) Christ.
(b) The poet's spouse.
(c) Matthew Arnold.
(d) A Victorian minister.

4. What techniques are evident in the phrase "Rebuffed the big wind" (line 7)?
(a) Personification and consonance.
(b) Euphony and personification.
(c) Consonance and assonance.
(d) Assonance and euphony.

5. What technique is employed in the poem's final two lines, "blue-bleak embers, ah my dear/ Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion"?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Euphemism.
(c) Oxymoron.
(d) Imagery.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the common name of the titular bird?

2. What device is evident in line 10's "the fire that breaks from thee then"?

3. What is "sillion" (line 12)?

4. Who is being referred to in line 10's "thee"?

5. Who is the author of "The Windhover"?

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